Clare Todhunter

About

Clare is a passionate broadcaster and multi-platform journalist with over a decade of experience across radio, television and print. Eager to follow a career in journalism from a young age, she began her university studies early while still in year 11, and volunteered as a community radio newsreader while completing her Bachelor of Journalism at Bond University. Clare spent a summer semester in New York City interning full-time as a fashion news writer for Stylecaster while enrolled at New York University. Upon her return to Bond, she was elected the Journalism Students' Association's Editor-In-Chief. After graduating, Clare joined the Gold Coast newsroom of Australia’s largest commercial radio network at the time, Southern Cross Austereo. She was soon among a small cohort accepted into a Graduate Diploma of Broadcasting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. She moved across the country to Perth, where she was an early-morning newsreader for one of the city’s highest-rating radio stations, Nova 93.7. She also freelanced as a features writer for the Sunday Times newspaper and was awarded a cash prize by Channel 7 as the runner-up 'Student with the Most Potential in Commercial Television'. Clare's broadcasting career soon saw her move to the NSW Central Coast to join 101.3 Sea FM's breakfast show, where she earned an Australian Commercial Radio Award for 'Best Newcomer On-Air'. Before long, she was headhunted by the Australian Radio Network to read the news for KIIS 1065 and 101.7 WSFM in a relocation to Sydney, then moved again four months later in a promotion to join ARN's KIIS 101.1 breakfast show in Melbourne. Returning to Sydney a couple of years down the track, Clare became ARN’s national Breaking News Reporter, where she was based in New South Wales Parliament's press gallery and covered some of Australia's biggest news stories for AM and FM radio stations in metropolitan markets around the country. Clare moved into television in 2020 as a supervising producer for Sky News Australia. After nearly two years leading the channel's news bulletins, she returned to her home state of Queensland as Sky’s Brisbane reporter, largely covering state and federal politics, as well as major crimes and natural disasters.In her current role as a general news reporter for 9News Queensland, every day is different for Clare, as she covers all kinds of stories for the 6pm news bulletin: crime, health, arts, entertainment, housing, fires, floods, fashion, politics, cost-of-living, science, education, local issues, and everything in between.